You are NOT going to believe this!!!!

Okay, some pictures of the tiels after I don't know how many years!

Hi Everybirdie! Its me, Mama Muffin!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...5/DSCF2072.jpg

*Gasp* We caught Popcorn HELPING!!! (It was just for two minutes, but still :p)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...5/DSCF2103.jpg

My cutie pies
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...5/DSCF2113.jpg

Mama Muffin
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...5/DSCF2127.jpg

Papa Popcorn and the 3 Muskateers (he he he)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...5/DSCF2128.jpg

what cuties!!!

is dad a lutino pearl?? if so expect lutino girls and the possibility of pearl boys... as momma is pearl too, which means pearly babies can be boys too not just the girls....YAY!!...

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Originally Posted by Husky_mom

what cuties!!!

is dad a lutino pearl?? if so expect lutino girls and the possibility of pearl boys... as momma is pearl too, which means pearly babies can be boys too not just the girls....YAY!!...

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As far as I know, dad is all lutino. At least he looks all lutino! I don't know what his parents were. Muffin is a pearl, definitely. Do you think there's any possibility of getting pearl pieds? I think it will be interesting to see what colors the babies turn out to be. I don't know if the eggs are fertile...how can you tell? When I look with a flashlight, I can see something inside. I assume its the yolk, but my flashlight is dim and I can't really tell. I also stopped checking...I don't want to disturb her. Does anyone know what I'm supposed to see if they're fertile? If they're not fertile, what would I see?

Good job, Mama Muffin. And you still look beautiful. So how soon should we know?

dad looks pearl to me... but it could be the light... his wings show a pattern of more bright yellow and them pale yellow

here´s another example
http://www.tieltreasures.com/Mutatio...tino%20183.jpg

and if mom/dad are pieds or split to pieds there is a chance in getting pieds...
my Maui and Jack are bth visual pieds (not split) and 100% their babies will be pieds...

in your case baby boys are going to be split pearl but if dad is pearl too then you would get visual pearls (boys and girls).. if dad is the only pearl (visual or split) then girls are going to be visual pearls but not boys..... but here mom is also a visual so.....let´s see how many you get....

pearl lutinos


as for fertility checking..... it´s hard if you don´t know what to look for... I tried but didn´t worked out.... anyway mine weren´t fertile LOL

you should see them "clear" just a yellow tint (yolk)... as it matures about day3-5 you should start seeing some veins but you do need a strong flashlight and be in a dark room....(just like if you placed a flashlight under your hand and try to see through it and you see all red...)

too early to tell or unfertile egg (depends on time of candling)
http://img413.imageshack.us/img413/3752/unfertkv9.jpg

fertile and developing baby
http://img254.imageshack.us/img254/2720/fertxi1.jpg

this are the spider web you should see (pic is in blk/wht)
http://images.newsquest.co.uk/image....4525&type=full

this shows development by day on doves, but it´s pretty much the same
eggs

See what happens when you don't check a thread regularly???

This is great! Good luck precious birdies

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Originally Posted by Jessika

It isn't uncommon even for a lone female to lay eggs I believe.

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I had a lone female parakeet who laid a total of 21 unfertized eggs over the years. She never sat on them, they scared her to death. Everytime she sat on my mom's finger and mom spoke to her, she'd go into a trance and then, days later, out came an egg! My mom tried desperately to ignore her, but she'd land on my mom's shoulder and..same thing. Unfortunately, I learned too late about the calcium and gave it to her too late.

PCB.. I hope you become a grammy soon! That would be so :cool:

In cockatiels, the egg color also varies slightly from fertile vs. non-fertile eggs. Non-fertile eggs tend to have a slightly more peachy/pink appearance. Fertile look more white.

Hoping you have wee ones on the way!

Update:

I'm pretty sure the eggs are all infertile. :( I've candeled them several times, and until now, all I see is an egg yolk, and air sac. There have been no changes in the eggs at all in all these weeks. Still just an egg yolk...If they were fertile, I'm pretty sure we'd be hearing some peeping by now. I am disappointed, but its okay. God has His Will in the Creation of new beings, and if His Will isn't there, then it isn't going to happen, and I'm fine with that. He knows what's best.

Now the problem is, Muffin is still sitting on them. This past weekend, she was off them the entire day, playing and running around the house for hours. She was still sitting on them in the night. For some reason, she started sitting again since yesterday. What's up with that?

I don't want to take them away too early and cause her to lay more. When is the right time? Will she eventually 'get it' and just abandon them on her own?

Just leave them in there. She'll ignore them and give up, eventually, if they aren't fertile. Only when she does ignore them, take them out. Otherwise, just like you thought, she'll lay more.

Milly has laid 6 this go around. :( The first two, she ignored, so I got rid of them, and she promptly laid 4 more. :eek:

my Maui had infertile eggs also.... they seemed pure yolk after 20 days of sitting on them... so after a few days she had ignored them I tossed them.... later she laid one more egg, which I knew it was a replacement one because she only laid that one......

after like 10 days she started laying again and now we have the replacement one and 3 others... which might be fertile this time as they have been mating in between eggs laid........ hopefully this time we have babies.....

just make sure she replenishes her calcium....and offer dark greens and cuttlebone

I woke up this morning and my in-laws' tiels had two eggs in their cage :) It isn't uncommon for them to lay one or two but this time the daddy was actually sitting on them :)

Those are wonderful photos, they look so beautiful. I'm sorry the eggs are infertile, but it sounds like you are handling that possibility well.

So interesting, all the stories about birds laying eggs...